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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 25th February 2018 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A relationship adrift: on India-Canada ties"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A relationship adrift: on India-Canada ties"
- Adrift - to fail
- Go back to the drawing board - to try to think of a completely new idea because the one that you tried before was not successful
- Red flag - a red flag used as a signal of danger or telling you to stop
- Protest - a strong complaint or disagreement
- Shepherd - guide or direct in a particular direction.
- Genocide - the murder of large numbers of people belonging to a particular race
- Itinerary - a plan of a journey that you are going to make, including information about when and where you will travel
- Opt for - to make a choice or decision from a range of possibilities
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Penultimate - just before the last in a series
- Delegation - a group of people who represent a country, government, or organization
- Exclude - to deliberately not include something
- Suspect - to believe that something is true, especially something bad
- Sympathise with - to approve of and support someone or something
- Extremist - someone who has beliefs or opinions that are considered to be extremely unreasonable by most people
- Adamant - determined not to change your belief or decision about something
- Reach out to someone - to offer help to someone
- Understandably - as is reasonable or expected.
- Offended - feeling angry or annoyed
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Tone-deafness - the inability to recognize the difference
- Sensitivity - the quality of understanding how someone feels and being careful not to offend them
- Discreet - careful not to say anything that is secret or that could upset someone
- Protocol - a set of rules for the correct way to behave on formal occasions
- Effusive - expressing happiness, admiration, praise etc in an extremely enthusiastic way
- Final straw - the last of a series of events that causes an angry or violent reaction
- Icy - unfriendly and showing no emotion
- Embarrass - to make someone feel nervous, ashamed, or stupid in a social situation
- Assassinate - to kill a famous or important person, especially for political reasons or for payment
- Entourage - a group of people who go somewhere with an important person
- Scrambling - to hurry or try very hard to get something
- Casualty - someone who is injured or killed in an accident or military action
- Amidst - if something happens amid particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
- Frosty - unfriendly and showing that you do not approve of someone or something
- Forge - to develop a successful relationship, especially in business or politics, with another country, organization, or person
- Pluralistic - relating to a system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist
- Diverse - very different from each other
- Diaspora - the movement of a large group of people from their home country to other countries in the world
- Rupture - an end to a friendly relationship or to a peaceful situation
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The regional mix: on the Nagaland-Meghalaya polls"
- Fluidity - the state of being unsettled or unstable; changeability
- Contestation - the act of arguing or disagreeing about something
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- In the reckoning - bein considered for a job or position
- Unopposed - if someone does something unopposed, no one competes against them or tries to stop them
- Constituency - the voters in a division of a country who elect a representative to parliament
- Wrinkle - a small problem
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Cropped up - to happen suddenly or unexpectedly
- Upheaval - a sudden or violent change, especially one that affects people’s lives
- Bipolar - involving two completely opposing parts or groups
- Augur - to be a sign of what may happen in the future
- Extremist - someone who has beliefs or opinions that are considered to be extremely unreasonable by most people
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Ethnic - relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions
- Spoiler - someone who spoils someone else’s performance or success in an election or competition
- Forge - to develop a successful relationship, especially in business or politics, with another country, organization, or person
- Long-standing - having existed for a long time
- Sluggish - not performing or reacting as well as usual
- Realignment - to change the position of something, especially in relation to the position of something else
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